18th February
The advertised evening of old exhibition displays
was replaced by one in which six members showed
off some of their collections. We were treated to
Machins, KG6 West Africa, the Titanic, Philatelic
Congress and much else.
Bill, Jim, Bruce and John
21st January
Giles du Boulay returned with a display of Danzig
- this time centred on transport. Starting with
mail by ship, Giles went on to show the impact of
railways to Danzig, and then the coming of
airmail. One cover had fallen out of an aeroplane
but had been delivered with a note explaining the
delay. An interesting set of covers demonstrated
an attempted scam by the Danziger post office who
tried to screw more money out of recipients of
airmail letters in the 1930s by delivering them by
motorbike - totally unnecessary.
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